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poltergeist
poltergeist:
[19] A poltergeist is literally a ‘noisy ghost’. The word was borrowed from German in the 19th century, where it is a compound made up of
poltern
‘make a noise, rattle or rumble’ and
geist
‘spirit, ghost’ (a relative of English
ghost
).